Atlas Ventures invests $100K to $20M in companies that complement the Colossal Capital ecosystem, from seed through growth, across AI, blockchain, hardware, and developer tools.
Every portfolio company gets the CC stack at no cost: Charon for auth, Apollo for AI, Hermes for streaming data, Akashic for code intelligence. Priced separately, that's over $100K a year of infrastructure a seed-stage team doesn't have to build or buy.
The thesis is straightforward: companies plugged into an ecosystem compound faster than companies that aren't. Portfolio companies integrate with CC products and with each other, which means shared distribution, shared infrastructure, and customers who arrive through the network rather than paid acquisition.
We are hands-on where it's useful, engineering, design, and go-to-market help comes from the same teams that build the CC products, and quiet otherwise. Companies that outgrow the free infrastructure tier convert to paying customers, which keeps our incentives pointed the right way: we only do well when the company does.
| Fund size | $15M target, now raising |
| Check size | $100K – $20M, seed through growth |
| Management fee | 2% on committed capital ($300K/yr at target) |
| Carried interest | 20% on realized gains above an 8% hurdle |
| Sectors | AI, blockchain, hardware, developer tools |
| Ambition | $200M+ AUM by 2029 |